POBee 39.2 - Bee Inspired
The Fourth of the Seventh hovered as still as she could. She was flying in front of the window to the King’s own hive, the giant one made of entire trees. She had never dared to come so close...but apparently the First of the Fifth’s soldiers had been invited inside, and so had led her there. She remained outside but could not resist the temptation to come and see the King at work.
She also wanted to visit the Flower Meadow, but that trip was a bit too far for merely indulging her curiosity, so she left that to her workers. But, well, no bee could begrudge her a chance to see the King!
He was as majestic as always, a towering giant taller than an entire hive with a body she couldn’t have even imagined. He had but two legs, mighty pillars so strong he needed only a third the number to support his entire weight. He had two arms but each of these split into five more for an unparalleled ability to grip. His eyes were smooth and colorful, like the petals of a flower, and his hair was like an entire forest.
And what he was doing was no less fascinating. The King was building something out of the plants themselves, twisting them together into some long vine of some sort. And even more curiously, the First of the Fifth’s soldiers were helping with the task!
Then the Fourth of the Seventh began to buzz, for she noticed something.
The color and shape of the vine they were weaving...matched a part of the King’s torso. She noticed now that he was not covered in some sort of hair or fur, but rather that he wore some construction of plant stems over his body. It looked nothing like normal plant stems, so she would not have noticed had the soldiers not explained to her their current task, and if she had not then seen it in progress. She wondered why the King put such a thing on his body.
But the surprises weren’t over.
“There, how about that? Maybe if you both try at once?”
The King and the soldiers finished constructing their vine, and the King wrapped it around a large branch with a tip coated in wax. One of the King’s legendary fire sticks, with which he reportedly lay waste to any invaders that intruded upon his realm.